Bkbillups has taken the last spot. Lotto will run beginning at midnight tonight. I'll post results Monday morning when I get to work and we can then immediately begin drafting.

Closer to 24

Looking to trade out of the first round.

As of now, my unofficial search is looking like jhsukow 625 (11:12) followed by bandit with 628 (2:00)

I haven't checked yet and there is still a lot of time left, but those are both going to be tough to beat.

yeah, definitely tough, the lowest after that was around 679 and was actually the 12:00am draw. I'll see what I can see unofficially, very easy to see now that those low numbers are up lol.

actually 12:36 is 602

627 at 10:24

Posted by bds9992 on 4/3/2016 2:33:00 PM (view original):
actually 12:36 is 602

good catch, probably looked at the wrong time afterward. I didn't check every line, just various ones that looked like they'd end up low.

I'm not a smart man, so tell me if I'm missing an easier way, but are you telling me that we are adding up 20 numbers 351 times to find out who won the lottery? Seems like a lot of work. Just curious, but would adding up the last four numbers be a possibility in the future?

There are 351 combinations of numbers. Some are obviously worth less than others. For example, I looked at the end to see if a string had 6 or less numbers above 40, 6 or more single digit numbers. If both of those things are true, the sum is probably below 700.

Using only that eye test, it becomes clear that most of the strings of numbers will not have a sum below 700. Since we're only looking for the three lowest sums, they're not that hard to find.

exactly, I've only been adding up ones that seem close.

Looks like 22:12 is the one to beat at 570

15:24 looks to be at 603

This is how I've run the lotto many many times over the last how many years. It takes me less than 5 minutes to go to the NY Lotto website, copy/paste into Excel and sort. Which I will do now.